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34,420 citations from literature (mostly science fiction and fantasy) referring to real churches, religious groups, tribes, etc. [This database is for literary research only. It is not intended as a source of information about religion.]

"...broadcast rock music to her sister ship. Martin had slipped Toby the tape before they lifted off. The music of Blue Oyster Cult blared into their ears. The tape began with 'Don't Fear the Reaper,' and now moved on to the Cult classic 'Godzilla.' "

A musical intro with horns and strings began playing, and Han found himself a bit surprised. He knew that Threepio could mimic other voices, and he'd heard the droid give some nice sound effects when telling stories to the Ewoks, but he'd never heard music coming from the droid. Threepio did a rather convincing impression of a full symphony orchestra. "

"Then he [Threepio] swirling in dance, doing a soft-shoe that scraped and echoed over the stone floors, and the droid sang in a deep voice that sounded an awful lot like Jukas Alim, one of the galaxy's most popular singers:

He's got his own planet,Although it's kind of wild.Wookies love him.Women love him.He's got a winning smile!Though he may seem cool and cocky,He's more sensitive than he seems,

(Chorus sung in accompaniment with three women who all sound like Leia)

Han Solo,What a man! Solo.He's every princess's dream!

Threepio ended with a flourish of horns and drums and a tap routine, then took a bow to Leia. Leia just stared at him with an expression somewhere between bewilderment and horror.

'Hey, that's pretty good,' Han said. 'How many more verses do you have?'

Pg. 12: "At the Queen's Hall, Thomas Beecham conducted a No German Concert: the selection of pieces from English, French and Belgian composers excluded any note of the diabolical kultur of Beethoven, Bach and Wagner. "; Pg. 63: "A Strauss waltz. "

"Several more high security Titan-O-Hold doors had to be passed through, each of which the officials opened with a selection of quark keys. Soon they were so deep within the heavy security fields that the Ultra-Cricket broadcasts were beginning to fade, and Zaphod had to switch to one of the rock video stations, since there was nowhere that they were not able to reach. "

"If anybody had asked him he would have said he was humming the first line of a Noel Coward song called 'Mad About the Boy' over and over again. It would then have been pointed out to him that he was only singing one note, to which he would have replied that for reasons that he hoped would be apparent, he was omitting the 'about the boy' bit. He was annoyed that nobody asked. "

"In 2105 he had operated the background music system aboard a huge colonizing ship on its way to one of the Deneb worlds. In the tape vault he had found all of the Beethoven symphonies mixed haphazardly in with string versions of Carmen and of Delibes and he had played the Fifth, his favorite, a thousand times throughout the speaker complex that crept everywhere within the ship, reaching each cubicle and work area. Oddly enough no one had complained and he had kept on, finally shifting his loyalty to the Seventh and at last, in a fit of excitement during the final months of the ship's voyage, to the Ninth--from which is loyalty never waned. "

Pg. 30: "His name was Chekov, Roberta recalled, thinking that he reminded her of one of the Beatles. Paul maybe, or George. "; Pg. 32: "On second thought... maybe he reminds me more of one of the Monkees. "; Pg. 36: "tickets to an upcoming Bob Dylan concert "; Pg. 184: "Sharing a joint with Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock. "; Pg. 199: "A yellow submarine. "

Pg. 132: "lute books of John Dowland, written at the end of the sixteenth century... " (also pg. 149); Pg. 140: "...Mahler Second Symphony, The Resurrection. The only symphony scored for many pieces of rattan, he mused. A Ruthe, which looks like a small broom; they use it to play the bass drum. Too bad Mahler never saw a Morley wah-wah pedal, he thought, or he would have scored it into one of his longer symphonies. " [More about Mahler, pg. 142.]; Pg. 145: Vivaldi [Other refs. to music, not in DB.]

"The music was provided by a group of junior officers who, several months ago, had discovered a mutual proficiency for horns and had formed a group calling themselves the Federation Horns. At the moment, they were playing some sort of fast-paced tune that Picard vaguely recognized as swing. Picard's personal taste leaned more toward classical, although there were those--Commander Riker among them--who would argue that swing was every bit as classical as Mozart. "

"Music had the power to quiet his mind, to restore his serenity, and to rejuvenate his enthusiasm. It made the difference in his life.

What program would he choose tonight? He'd often lost himself for hours playing trombone with a simulated New Orleans jazz group. But ever since the appearance of the remarkable female holofigure Minuet in that program--and her reemergence in the elaborate scheme of the alien child Barash--the purity of that music had been compromised.

'Earth,' Riker found himself saying after he had keyed instructions to the holodeck computer. 'Memphis, Tennessee. Year, 1925. A honky-tonk called Stumpy's.' "

"Pretty soon it was coming shockingly close to playing something like an actual tune. Kim shook his head in amazed appreciation. 'You're a little monkey Mozart,' he said out loud. 'Who would've guessed it?' "

"Without a word or a change in his taut expression, the captain tapped a control on his console; blessedly, the opera dropped in volume. As it did, Riker felt his face relax and realized he had been wincing.

'Wagner?' he asked, with the faintest of smiles. The music played softly on, speaking to Riker of utter loss, destruction, despair--the ironically appropriate Gotterdammerung, the twilight of the gods.

Picard did not return the smile but replied curtly and without humor. 'Berlioz. What do you have?' "

"Seven was shocked and rather dismayed to find out how many Earth-based songs concerned birds. A bird in a Guilded Cage. Birds Do It, Bees Do It. Listen to the Mockingbird. Freebird. When the red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along. One song, called a Christmas carol, mentioned a variety of fowl including swans, partridges, geese, turtledoves, and some unidentifiable species known as 'calling birds' and 'French hens.' " [More.]

"'Then I began listening to samples of music in my quarters after my shifts. At first they were so strange, but then I detected the mathematical precision to music, and I began to like that too. My favorite was something called 'Jingle Bells.' Do you know it?'

'Yes,' Kim managed. His chest felt oddly full.

'It made me want to laugh and move my body in a strange way. I went to the Doctor and he said this desire to move to music was called 'dancing.' I liked it...' " [More.]

"Purple People Eaters, Tom had said after he had seen the Rhawn emperor on the viewscreen. The entire bridge crew had looked at him in shock, but he had shrugged in that attractive devil-may-care way of his.

It's an old song from the mid-twentieth century, he said. I'll play it for you sometime.

I am sure that will not be necessary, Tuvok had said in reply, and the entire crew had burst into laughter...

B'Elanna had been amused, but for a slightly different reason. Tom's knowledge of the trivia of his people--centuries-old material--always startled her, and made her feel a little inadequate. She knew about the major things that every Klingon should know from Sto-Vo-Kor to the entire... life of Kahless. But she didn't know the details--the popular music of Kahless's day, for example--and if truth be told, she didn't really care to know. It seemed like a waste of brain space to her, however attractive she found it in Tom. "

Dietz, William C. Where the Ships Die. New York: Berkley (1996); pg. 182.

"It was a large space with white walls, wood floors, and a minimal amount of furniture. Mozart's Allegro in B flat was playing in the background. The man who lived there paused in the middle of his nocturnal workout, raised an eyebrow, and ordered the domocomp to kill the music. "

Pg. 256: "Wagner... She called up the music program, and keyed in 'The Ride of the Valkyries,' directing the computer to play a random selection after that.

What are 'Valkyries,' Ysaye?

Warrior maidens... They come from the German legends that formed the basis for this opera. "; Pg. 257: "...Berlioz... Bach chorales... the last movement of the Beethoven Ninth, with its 'Hymn to Joy.' "; Pg. 266: Ralph Vaughan Williams

"Then, spontaneously, before services were even finished, someone in the crowd started singing 'God Save the King.' The audience picked it up. Then, once the anthem was finished, they began singing Rule Britannia. With each verse, their voices grew louder. " [Pg. 207: More about the singing of that song, including verses.]

Science fiction and music go together for me like . . . well, like Strayhorn and Ellington, like Rogers and Hart, or like Monk and his piano. Most of us have had a sound track since birth. I was fortunate in that mine was jazz. I spent my formative years learning that the variation was usually much more interesting than the theme--but that the theme had to be there, however invisibly, to create the tension required... I've written four jazz-and-blues-based science fiction novels, which take as their theme... " [Extensive refs. to music, particularly to jazz, throughout much of the novel. It is a major theme. Other refs. to music, including to specific musicians and pieces, not in DB.]

"First there was the music--all kinds, but mostly her beloved jazz, for her father had been a trombone player in a place called New Orleans. Will liked the happy music best, particularly during the endless rainy afternoons when it seemed there had never been and never would be any color in the world but gray. "

Pg. 60: Neil Diamond; Pg. 63: "The sound tech was more than a little surprised at the familiar melody of J. S. Bach's 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring' which flowed gently... "; Pg. 67: "...as she sang self-consciously but adequately 'I Will Always Love You.' It was a song he knew, for Dolly Parton had recorded it a long time before Whitney Houston had made it a hit. "; Pg. 67: "Yankee Doodle " (also pg. 69); Pg. 69: "...remembered fondly from his own youth in the mid-sixties: the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, Petula Clark, Chad and Jeremy, and several others... 'A World Without Love' and thrashed 'Honky Tonk Woman'... "; Pg. 76: "The soundtrack went suddenly silent, and the rumbling music of Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra began. On the first forte phrase, the jumper went over the edge... "

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